The loaded press beneath its labour groans,

And printers' devils shake their weary bones,

While Arnold's epics cram the creaking shelves,

And Kipling's ballads shine in hot-pressed twelves

'New' schools of twaddle in their turn arise,

Where jingling rhymsters grapple for the prize,

And for a time these psuedo-bards prevail;

Each public 'library' assists their sale,

And, hurling lawful genius from its throne,

Takes up some puny idol of its own,